Travel Archive

After a 19 year absence I finally completed reaching all the summits along the primary ridge of mountains in the Mummy Range of Rocky Mountain National Park. Having done Mummy Mountain (elevation 13,425-feet) and Hagues Peak (elevation 13,560-feet) in 1998, I always planned on returning...

It was February 1979 the last time I had the chance to see a total solar eclipse. The path that one took stretched from the Pacific Northwest of Oregon and Washington, through Idaho, and finally Montana, just skimming my hometown of Billings before extending into...

My wife and I recently vacationed on the southern coast of Washington state. We stayed at a resort at Long Beach and from there explored the surrounding area, including northern Oregon. We love the northwest, with its typically not too hot, not too cold weather,...

It took me a while to come up with the uninspiring title to this trip review, but it is exactly what it is. I have wanted to see the Dinosaur area for many years, and my wife was just a little girl the last time...

Easily one of the best hikes I’ve done in Colorado. No mountain was climbed, but the company was good, and the route offered a little bit of everything. . It was a fantastic hike. If you have a full day to spare, are in excellent...

This is the last of a very long series of posts on my summer road trip to the Washington coast and some of the exploring we did in the greater area. This time I’m just tying up all the loose photographic ends…

Rhiannon and I got away from the cloudy coast on two days of our week in Washington. One of those days we drove up to Olympic National Park to hike in the Quinault Rain Forest. It was sunny and a bit warmer than average. Years...

Being that I am landlocked in Colorado, it is always cool to get to the ocean and walk the coast. The weather for our week at Ocean Shores wasn’t ideal, but we did enjoy one sunny day and walked the beach multiple times a day....

CURRENT THOUGHTS…

I'm well acquainted with change and evolution, but it never made sense to me that as people grow older they slowly start to abandon so many positive things that were once a fixture of their past. It isn't a matter of growth, it's just abandonment. For example, it's easy to see what has value in other people's eyes when you examine their priorities. When some people prioritize their routine hobbies over positive, but infrequent traditions, you realize they cannot be trusted and it's time to put your energy towards more reliable people who stay true to themselves.

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